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Special Weather Statement, NWS Hastings, NE

August 6, 2015Jewell County, Kansas

NWS Hastings, NE issued this special weather statement at Aug 6, 2015, 2:49 PM CDT for Jewell County, Kansas. It was in force for 26 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Aug 6, 2015, 2:49 PM CDT (19:49 UTC)
Expired: Aug 6, 2015, 3:15 PM CDT
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS Hastings, NE

County Jewell County, KS

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:48 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 250 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 893 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -170 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 778 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 289 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 465 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.6

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Hastings, NE wrote its last area forecast discussion before this special weather statement went out at Aug 6, 12:27 PM CDT, 2 hours 22 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 6, 12:27 PM CDT, 2 hours 22 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 6, 11:06 AM CDT, 3 hours 43 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
1106 AM CDT THU AUG 6 2015

NEZ039>041-046>049-060>064-072>077-082>087-071200-
VALLEY-GREELEY-NANCE-SHERMAN-HOWARD-MERRICK-POLK-DAWSON-BUFFALO-
HALL-HAMILTON-YORK-GOSPER-PHELPS-KEARNEY-ADAMS-CLAY-FILLMORE-
FURNAS-HARLAN-FRANKLIN-WEBSTER-NUCKOLLS-THAYER-
1106 AM CDT THU AUG 6 2015

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR ALL OF SOUTH CENTRAL
NEBRASKA.

.DAY ONE...REST OF TODAY AND TONIGHT.

THE ENTIRE AREA HAS AT LEAST A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS AT
SOME POINT THROUGH THIS EVENING. ALTHOUGH WIDESPREAD SEVERE
WEATHER IS NOT ANTICIPATED...A FEW STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS ARE
POSSIBLE...WITH HAIL UP TO AROUND QUARTER SIZE AND WIND GUSTS UP
TO AROUND 60 MPH BEING THE PRIMARY THREATS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY.

FRIDAY EVENING THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT...THERE ARE VARIOUS ADDITIONAL
CHANCES FOR THUNDERSTORMS. THE HIGHEST CHANCES ARE CURRENTLY
FOCUSED ON FRIDAY NIGHT...WHEN THERE IS ALSO AT LEAST A MARGINAL
RISK FOR SEVERE STORMS WITHIN THE AREA...AND A SLIGHT RISK OF
SEVERE WEATHER NORTHWEST OF A LINE FROM ELWOOD TO KEARNEY TO
FULLERTON.

THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS TUESDAY FOR A VERY SMALL
PORTION OF THE OUTLOOK AREA ON TUESDAY...MAINLY SOUTHWEST OF A LINE
FROM ELWOOD TO ALMA.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED ON AN ISOLATED BASIS AT SOME
POINT THROUGH THIS EVENING.

&&

MORE INFORMATION MAY BE OBTAINED AT THE FOLLOWING WEB PAGE:
   HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/HASTINGS  (ALL LOWERCASE)

KSZ005>007-017>019-071200-
PHILLIPS-SMITH-JEWELL-ROOKS-OSBORNE-MITCHELL-
1106 AM CDT THU AUG 6 2015

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTH CENTRAL
KANSAS.

.DAY ONE...REST OF TODAY AND TONIGHT.

THE ENTIRE AREA HAS AT LEAST A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS AT
SOME POINT THROUGH THIS EVENING. ALTHOUGH WIDESPREAD SEVERE
WEATHER IS NOT ANTICIPATED...A FEW STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS ARE
POSSIBLE...WITH HAIL UP TO AROUND QUARTER SIZE AND WIND GUSTS UP
TO AROUND 60 MPH BEING THE PRIMARY THREATS.

IN ADDITION...FLOODING WILL CONTINUE ACROSS PARTS OF THE
AREA AS A RESULT OF HEAVY RAIN THAT FELL EARLY WEDNESDAY
MORNING...BUT FLOOD WATERS ARE EXPECTED TO GRADUALLY RECEDE
TODAY. PLEASE REFER TO THE LATEST FLOOD WARNINGS STATEMENTS FOR
ADDITIONAL DETAILS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY.

FRIDAY EVENING THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT...THERE ARE VARIOUS
ADDITIONAL CHANCES FOR THUNDERSTORMS WITHIN THE OUTLOOK AREA. THE
HIGHEST CHANCES ARE CURRENTLY FOCUSED ON FRIDAY NIGHT...WHEN THERE
IS ALSO AT LEAST A MARGINAL RISK FOR SEVERE STORMS WITHIN THE
AREA.

THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS TUESDAY FOR A VERY
SMALL PORTION OF THE OUTLOOK AREA ON TUESDAY...MAINLY SOUTHWEST OF
A LINE FROM PHILLIPSBURG TO PLAINVILLE.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED ON AN ISOLATED BASIS AT SOME
POINT THROUGH THIS EVENING.

&&

MORE INFORMATION MAY BE OBTAINED AT THE FOLLOWING WEB PAGE:
   HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/HASTINGS  (ALL LOWERCASE)

PFANNKUCH

In the hours before

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Local storm report, Aug 6, 2:16 PM CDT, 33 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 6, 2:23 PM CDT, 26 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 6, 2:49 PM CDT, 0 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 6, 9:17 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Furnas, Gosper	43 min
Aug 6, 9:56 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Furnas	49 min
Aug 6, 10:01 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Furnas, Harlan	44 min
Aug 6, 10:34 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Dawson	26 min
Aug 6, 10:44 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Harlan	46 min
Aug 6, 11:00 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Harlan	45 min
Aug 6, 11:18 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Buffalo	27 min
Aug 6, 12:22 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Harlan	23 min
Aug 6, 12:44 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Franklin, Harlan	31 min
Aug 6, 6:50 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	GID	Osborne, Smith	20 hr
Aug 6, 11:36 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Osborne, Phillips, Rooks, Smith	39 min
Aug 6, 12:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Jewell, Osborne, Smith	21 min
Aug 6, 12:34 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Jewell	26 min
Aug 6, 1:42 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Smith	33 min
Aug 6, 2:23 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Jewell	37 min

Nearby

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.